BlockVanished settlements of Hempstead County, Arkansas
The Geographic Names Information System records 13 places in Hempstead County, Arkansas that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
13A place leaves this list only by being unmade: the post office closes, the mine works out, the road moves. The name stays in the federal gazetteer, flagged historical, and the topographic sheets that recorded it stay in the archive.
| Where in the county | Place | Where it stood | Nearest place today | Mapped |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy | Washington quadrangle | 3.4 miles north of Ozan | 13 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Alton | Patmos quadrangle | 0.8 miles north of Coler | 15 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Belton | McCaskill quadrangle | 3.2 miles west of Doyle | 14 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Compton | Nashville quadrangle | 2.4 miles south-east of Bellair | 14 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Dolph | Sheppard quadrangle | 1.8 miles south-east of Oakhaven | 15 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Dotson Station | Pisgah quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-east of Dotson | 14 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Drab | Blevins quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of Dunlap | 15 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Hennessey | Old Town quadrangle | 2.2 miles north of Patmos | 14 sheets, 1952 to 1989 | |
| Jakajones | Washington quadrangle | 4.1 miles north-east of Blevins | 13 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Kilgore | on Blue Branch, Pisgah quadrangle | 1.6 miles north of Dotson | 14 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Sardis | Patmos quadrangle | 0.5 miles south of New Hope | 15 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Thrasher | on Little Bridge Creek, McNab quadrangle | 1.1 miles west of McNab | 14 sheets, 1951 to 1989 | |
| Westbrook | McCaskill quadrangle | 1.6 miles south of McCaskill | 14 sheets, 1951 to 1989 |
Provenance
- Which settlements are gone. Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey. A place is listed here when the federal gazetteer flags its record historical; that is the government's judgement, not this site's.
- Where each one stood. The gazetteer's own coordinates, and the nearest named landform and quadrangle from the same file.
- Distance and direction to the nearest surviving place. Computed here from the gazetteer coordinates of both places, straight line, to the nearest tenth of a mile.
- Sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The count is of sheets covering the site, so it describes how often the AREA was surveyed and not how long the settlement lasted.